Only a few blocks lay between them and their home; the old brownstone house that had been New York's definition of architectural elegance in the time of T.
They kept on, crossing Sixth and Seventh Avenues, and presently stood in front of a neat, brownstone house between Seventh and Eighth Avenues.
My dear sir, we can't get brownstone houses and country villas into an office like this.
From the barred windows under the carved brownstone copings she could peer out at the ships in the harbor and the shining green of Battery Park.
Commercial houses nearly filled the street, although a few old-time residences of brownstone still remained.
Moved by a sudden and unusual impulse of intelligence, he ran up the brownstone stoop and read the dirty white card pasted on the facade above the door bell.
The frittering brownstone and discolored brick suit me as naturally as a hole in the sand befits a prairie dog.
Madame Francesca, as she will be called, can no longer keep on living in this frittering brownstone relic of better days.
Porter was also compelled to come to the top of the little brownstone house.
It was an old three-story brownstone building with an entrance two or three steps up from the sidewalk level.
Quickly he tiptoed over to the chimney of the brownstone house a few doors down and, as he did so, I saw him take from his pocket the cedar box.
You can't breeze into them old brownstonefronts on your nerve.
Vee had to 'phone Auntie and get Doris to back her up before the special dispensation was granted; but at six-thirty the four of us starts uptown for this brownstone bird-cage of happiness that Westy has taken a five-year lease of.
Like Hata, the Pandit lived in a large brownstone house.
The establishment of Mademoiselle Violette consisted of a three-story and basement brownstone house in which the basement and first floor had been remodelled for business purposes.
First, however, he walked back toward the Mortons' apartment, and going up the steps of the brownstone house adjoining, rang the doorbell.
The wall of the brownstone dwelling house next door, which formed the east side of the narrow court, was of brick, covered with ivy.
Instead of turning into the Montmartre and his office, he went past to a high-stooped brownstone house, two doors away, climbed the steps and entered.
It was an old four-story brownstone house which had been occupied by his father and grandfather before him, and now was the home of Carton, his mother, and his sister.
The house was a narrow slice of brownstone front in the middle of a block of similar dwellings, within sight of the schoolhouse, and in the Hill section of Centerport.
And the rental of the thirteen-foot slice of brownstone had become a serious problem to the Board of Governors of the M.
He was destined to a long wait in front of the brownstone mansion.
He found a large brownstone house of aristocratic appearance, and rang the basement bell.
The typical "brownstone front" is all built of Portland stone.
It was from these quarries that great quantities of brownstone were shipped for buildings in New York.
It was one of the old monotonousbrownstone houses, but with a "southern exposure," and the former owner had removed the front steps and remodeled the lower floor.
While taking a stroll down Main street the other day my attention was arrested by a three-story brownstone building, standing on the east side and back some distance from the street.
In this park a brownstone shaft, surmounted by a colossal statue of Britannia, perpetuates the memory of the Canadians who fell in repelling the Fenian invasion in 1866.
Fifth Avenue is a continuous line of palatial hotels, gorgeous club-houses, brownstone mansions and magnificent churches.
You ought to see our chief diver, Bill Atkinson; he lives in a brownstone house.
The row of high-stoop brownstone "fronts" has that air of neglect which precedes demolition and the giving way of the old order to the new.
I can buy stock in the company, identify myself with it more and more, and in twenty or thirty years, perhaps, move into a brownstone front on Easy street.
Thrusting the velvet knot into his pocket he ran down and opened the front door just as Alison gained the top of the brownstone steps.
And as he started up the brownstone stoop he became aware of a disconsolate little figure hunched up on the topmost step; which was Mr. Iff.
All necessary bluestone sills, cellar steps, and copings, fine tooled brownstone steps for stoops, also fine tooled brownstone sills for the doors and windows above cellar.
With a great effort, Katy kept her tears back, and was very calm when they reached the brownstone front, far enough uptown to save it from the slightest approach to plebeianism from contact with its downtown neighbors.
I was prodded in the back, both in the alley and in the office at the brownstone house.
It wasn't thebrownstone I had seen the night before.
I told her all that had happened the night before from the time Lefty had accused me of being a snake until he had let me out of the brownstone house and warned me against gambling.
We pulled up in front of a brownstone house in the upper Eighties that reared up four stories among a string of three-story neighbors.
It had been the front parlor of the old brownstone in its prime, and was now fixed up as an office.
They had to walk up four blocks and then half a block across before they came to the indistinctive brownstone house where the Dryfooses lived.
He took her hand gently and with some tremor as he said good-evening, and then he descended the brownstone steps aware that all debate and hesitancy were at an end.
Yes, oh, yes; I attended a patient near there once, in one of the brownstone houses on the other side of the street.
As they said good-bye, in front of the brownstone stoop of the Settlement House, there was none of the usual restraint that exists between a child and a grown-up.
With a smile on her lips she went up the brownstone steps, pushed wide the door--which was never locked.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "brownstone" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
